Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed capitalism, marriage, and the state, as well as the domination of religion over sexuality and over women's lives, all of which she saw as interconnected. She is often characterized as a major early feminist because of her views.
Born and raised in small towns in Michigan and schooled in a Sarnia, Ontario, Catholic convent, de Cleyre began her activist career in the freethought movement. Although she was initially drawn to individualist anarchism, de Cleyre evolved through mutualism to what she called anarchism without adjectives and prioritized a stateless society without the use of aggression or coercion above all else.
De Cleyre was a contemporary of Emma Goldman but maintained a relationship with her respectfully despite disagreement on many issues. Many of de Cleyre's essays were collected in the Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, which was published posthumously by Goldman's magazine, Mother Earth, in 1914.
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VoltairinedeCleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed capitalism...
hadn't much out of his life either, had he?" De Claire's daughter, VoltairinedeCleyre, attributed her "opposition to things as they are" in part to her...
Harry deCleyre (1890–1974) was and American house painter and writer. The son of VoltairinedeCleyre and James B. Elliott, he was abandoned by his mother...
Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta and the American individualist VoltairinedeCleyre. Anarchists without adjectives are suspicious of dogmatism and criticise...
not feel." — VoltairineDeCleyre, "To My Mother", Letter to Harriet De Claire, May 27, 1907 During their childhood, Adelaide and Voltairine enjoyed reading...
ISBN 1884365051. OCLC 37510629. DeCleyre, Voltairine; Berkman, Alexander; Havel, Hippolyte (2016). The selected works of VoltairinedeCleyre: poems, essays, sketches...
OCLC 39696813. ProQuest 8900770. deCleyre, Voltairine (2004) [1893]. "Dyer D. Lum". In Brigati, A. J. (ed.). The VoltairinedeCleyre Reader. AK Press. pp. 147–149...
autobiography, Living My Life, and a biography of fellow anarchist VoltairinedeCleyre. Anarchism and Other Essays. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association...
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Yiddish. An English translation by VoltairineDeCleyre appeared in 1899. Grave was acquitted in the "Trial of the thirty"...
is remembered as the lover and mentor of early anarcha-feminist VoltairinedeCleyre. Lum wrote prolifically, producing a number of key anarchist texts...
early 20th-century authors and theorists including Emma Goldman and VoltairinedeCleyre. In the Spanish Civil War, an anarcha-feminist group called Mujeres...
of their wives. Earlier efforts by first-wave feminists such as VoltairinedeCleyre, Victoria Woodhull and Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy to criminalize...
Anarchists of the Americas and depicts American anarchists including VoltairinedeCleyre, Emma Goldman, and Sacco and Vanzetti, as well as a member's cats...
deCleyre, Voltairine. Anarchism. Originally published in Free Society, 13 October 1901. Published in Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairinede Cleyre...
a publication about the 1910 Chicago strike. American anarchist VoltairinedeCleyre wrote the essay "Direct Action" in 1912, offering historical examples...
the Comstock laws again. Notable contributors include Kate Austin, VoltairinedeCleyre, Michael Cohn, Jay Fox, Emma Goldman, Lizzie Holmes, William Holmes...
in New Politicas (2018) "This week in history: Radical feminist VoltairinedeCleyre" in People's World (2016) Film: Georgakas' has appeared in documentaries...
Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (d. 1932) 1866 – VoltairinedeCleyre, American author and activist (d. 1912) 1868 – Korbinian Brodmann...
Donisthorpe, James L. Walker, J. William Lloyd, Florence Finch Kelly, VoltairinedeCleyre, Steven T. Byington, John Beverley Robinson, Jo Labadie, Lillian...
itself". Late 19th century/early 20th Century anarchists such as VoltairinedeCleyre were often associated with the freethinkers' movement, advocating...
notable anarchists—including Leonard Abbott, Alexander Berkman, VoltairinedeCleyre and Emma Goldman. The school used Montessori methods and equipment...
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